On This Day
1919-1938 > Depresssion and between the wars
On This Day - 1919-1938
- December 10, 1919
HMAS SYDNEY, (light cruiser), patrolled the Timor Sea as beacon ship for Ross and Keith Smith’s flight from England to Australia.
The aviators recorded the cruiser was sighted exactly on station.
- December 5, 1919
HMAS Encounter permanently transferred from the RN to the RAN
- November 6, 1919
RADM P. E. F. P. Grant, First Naval Member, tendered his resignation. His resignation was in protest to the Australian Government demanding the Admiralty release five sailors gaoled for participation in a mutiny aboard HMAS AUSTRALIA, (battle-cruiser), at Fremantle, WA. Nine days later the Commodore Commanding His Majesty’s Australian Squadron, (CDRE J. S. Dumaresq), joined the Admiral. The Government stood firm on its demand, and the sailors were released on 20 December. Both officers withdrew their resignations on 13 February, after receiving conciliatory letters from the Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughes.
- October 21, 1919
Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Jellicoe, presented his report on the future development of the RAN, to the Australian Government.
- October 19, 1919
The Australian Naval Board approved the inclusion of ‘Advance Australia Fair’ in the repertoire of RAN bands.
- October 10, 1919
The Treaty of Versailles is signed and formally ends WWI.
- September 8, 1919
HM Ships MARGUERITE, GERANIUM, and MALLOW, (sloops), swept for wartime mines off Cape Everard, VIC. One mine was swept and destroyed
- August 12, 1919
Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Jellicoe, reported to the Admiralty on Australian naval defence:- ‘One of the earliest requirements of the Commonwealth is the acquisition on loan of an aircraft carrier’.
- July 22, 1919
The River class torpedo boat destroyer, HMAS Parramatta (I) decommissioned in Sydney.
- July 18, 1919
HMAS Sydney arrived in Sydney after sailing from Portsmouth on 9 April 1919 for the return passage to Australia calling at Gibaltar, Malta, Port Said, Port Suez, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Penang, and Thursday Island